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Meanings of jigger in English

Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation.

A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey.

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Examples for "chigger"
Examples for "chigger"
1
I'd probably end up with chigger bites up the wazoo thanks to his latest stunt.
Calamity jayne
2
She's from the South, you know, and they have a bug down there called a chigger.
The incumbent
3
His skin was covered with the bumps of mosquito and chigger bites, some new, mostly old.
The stand
4
A chigger would starve to death out here.
Lonesome dove
5
Then she sat on him for several minutes, scratching at the chigger bites on his wet ankles.
Lonesome dove

A flea of the species Tunga penetrans of tropical America and Africa, the impregnated female of which embeds itself in the skin, especially of the feet, of humans and animals and becomes greatly distended with eggs.

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Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl.

Usage of jigger in English
1
The jigger-mast was cut in two and flew upward like a pipe-stem.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
2
Several jigger-sized whiskey bottles pillaged from the hotel's minibar littered the nightstand.
A Brewing Storm
3
Crash the cull-downwith him-downwith him, before he dubs the jigger.
Pelham — Volume 08
4
A jigger of brandy brought her to, gasping like a blessed mermaid.
The Iron Trail
5
It's a little jigger. He indicated the first joint of his thumb.
Second Foundation
6
But he could not eliminate the man on the box-seat of the jigger-wagon.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
7
Fill the glass with ice and pour over it a jigger of whisky.
Bohemian San Francisco / Its restaurants and their most famous r...
8
The gunnery instructor shot it, and with a jigger we hauled it aboard.
From Lower Deck to Pulpit
9
The boats are arranged for wireless with foremast and jigger mast.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
10
The jigger which he had been polishing lay on a chair close by.
The Clicking of Cuthbert
11
At that moment a jigger-wagon rumbled to a halt near them.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
12
Mayo was assigned to the jigger-mast, and went aloft to shake out the topsail.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
13
He said he felt pains in his interior, and drank a jigger of whisky.
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
14
Her jib and jigger were both brailed at that instant.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
15
There was one jigger who seemed to have learned to do nothing but boil.
The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan / As Told in the Camps of ...
16
If you think that a double jigger of gin, with a little lemon and-
The Box with Broken Seals
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